Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-12

that It was bound to have those horns
and would just wait till they rotted off
and fell down. 1t IS g new thing when
the Pennsylvania Railroad loses one of
its prominent connections like the Van
daha Line, and probably Mr.. Garrett
never made wiser step than when he
went outside Of the limited circle of his
partners to ask enterprising men willing
20 spend money 20 come and include his
property in their projects.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is rap
idly losing That public opin-
ion it spent so many
years to obtain. The recent performance
at the Legislature at Harrisburg of hay
ing a bill made illegal by the want of Il
signature to it Iooksvery much like the
old and sinister methods in the time Of
Bill Kemble when the lobby was ambush
ing. q portion Of the Pennsylvania peo-
pie expected competition through their
lands, but the Pennsylvania fastened to
say that they would always DE ready TO
lend q helping hand. In this way they
built q line from the Susquehanna river
TO Frederick, Md, which runs no fast
trains, is purely local III its operations,
and has discouraged any other company
from using this route for fast trains.
Hence the people about the populous
borough of York are all against the Penn
sVlvania Railroad. They wanted line
which should bring the trade of the west
and Of the Shenandoah valley uD by Fred
eTIck City and
ONWARD TO THE NORTH.
Instead of that they get a morning train
no =
where 20 visit for q connection, without
affording On eating saloon to the belated
passengers. Then the South PenpsYlva-
MIA Railroad which the Pittsburg men
and the Vanderbilts undertook to build,
has been vacated oy the action of the
Pennsylvania people, Just after the great
est expectations had been entertained by
the people on the line. The horseshoe,
OF mountsin, part Of the Pennsylvania
Road they have always claimed to be the
safest Of their sections, but the other
day we had a terrible accident with much
loss of life and mutilati0n of bodies right
on the horseshoe.
Now comes the Vsndalia extrication.
The Pennsylvania Railroad is acknoWl-
edged to be about the CompIetest system
in America, unless some Of the western
roads excel it.
vas talking yesterday to one of the
employees, who said: "The mechanical
perfection of the Pennsylvania Road Is
understood by every man on the line.
When we ran the Pullman sleepers for
the Baltimore and Ohio Company over
the Pennsylvania connections, our Penn
syIyania inspectors would every now ard
then order cut 4 wheel, because its jour
nal YVES getting too much worn and
rounded Ii is the law of the Pennsylva-
MIA Company that after certain number of
revolutions they dispense with a wheel.
These journals are driven by hydraulic
pressure into the center of the wheel, and
in course OF time there is d loosening CT
wesring at the point of intersection. The
Baltimore and Ohio would take the wheel
GU. from under the Pullman car, but
would stick it under one of their passen-
ger coaches. Now, if it was not safe in
one car, it ought not to have been put
on the other one"
Such instances as the above, if true,
show thai the introduction OF new and
northern blood into this old conservative
corporation is going TO
PRODUCE GOOD RESULTS.
Baltimore itself is showing signs of
northernizing. In spite of the
existence of q good many dull,
half educated people there among
the c0mmCBer classes, there is for the
first time 8 growing indignation n the
state st the domination of the prejudices
merely. The growth of Washington TO
the south is something new to the Balti-
moreans. The rapid and constant trains
moving between New York and Wash
lngt0n on the flank of Baltimore have, so
to speak, brought that city in line with
energetic populations. There are num-
erous trains now on both roads which
run between Baltimore and Washington
in forty-fve minutes. The stability OF
men like Mr.. Waite, the son Of Inc chief
Justice, is one of the best features in the
new Ives and Steyner management. Men
who have the local attachments of rail-
road, end who have been long with 1t,
CELTIC be known and understood when the
distant spectators and promoters are
half mythical to the people on the line.
If the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road has become too conserva-
tive, it is possible that the
Pennsylvania Railroad is growing that
way also. 1t appears 10 have been sitting
down like dog which laced only one
wav and left its tail stretched out, so
that the cook ran out with g cleaver and
cut the tail off. The Yandalia line is
gone TO eli appearances, and probably
these new performers in the railroad
business are just as expert in unscrupu-
lousness as the old Pennsylvania buck
sterers around courts and state legisla-
lures. The worst that can happen to the
travelling public would be further con-
solidation of the Baltimore and Ohio and
its kindred interests with the Pennsyl-
vania system, as the Reading Railroad
seems to have been absorbed.
They are putting, up the Reading
stock as fast as they can in Wall
street, but are making that road
play somewhat the part OF the